1Dept. of F.M.T., Govt. Medical College, Aurangabad
2Dept. of F.M.T., Indira Gandhi Govt. Medical College, Nagpur
3Dept. of F.M.T., S. V. N. Government Medical College, Yavatmal
Online published on 28 February, 2012.
Road traffic accidents are the major causes of death worldwide and also contribute substantially to the disease burden in India. The present study was undertaken on 187 victims of road traffic accidents and an attempt is made to measure incidence of road traffic accidents in relation to age, sex, type of collision, type of offending vehicle, time and place of accident and other various epidemiological, medico-legal aspects of vehicular accidents to establish various causative factors, types and distribution of injuries in road traffic accidents by detailed examination of death victims. All the data thus collected was analyzed and presented in this paper.
Road traffic accidents, Injuries
